Where is the conversation about the Stone's Sweet Neo-Con?

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Now that their retirement funds are secure, they finally get political. Let's see if Richards get shipped to Guantanamo and Jagger gets labeled a terrorist. Kudos for them for writing this, I wish they did it 5 years ago.

― SPARTACUS TWATTERY (I AM LOGGED ON), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Nauseating global meme in a day or less: The Rolling Stones' "Sweet Neo Con," a hit that doesn't have to be heard to be written about

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 9 October 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

the song is out now, all over slsk and limewire. there's not much conversation on that thread up there, just people saying we haven't heard it yet. Whatever, sorry for the duplication.

― SPARTACUS TWATTERY (I AM LOGGED ON), Sunday, 9 October 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry too - didn't mean to be an ass. So, what's the song actually like?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 9 October 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

pretty classic Stones, very simple. not bombastic at all.

― SPARTACUS TWATTERY (I AM LOGGED ON), Sunday, 9 October 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

here, check it out yrself:

http://s4.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=37CSL0VT03R5E1SDTWJUTYCTZ8

― SPARTACUS TWATTERY (I AM LOGGED ON), Sunday, 9 October 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

It's possibly the dumbest thing they've ever released.

― Burr (Burr), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

I mean, yeah, props and all for the sentiments - but this song sucks horribly. Nothing special about it, unless you consider the awkward and/or forced rhymes "special". I really, really, really like the new album (probably more than I should), but I can't run for the skip button fast enough when that song comes on.

― jonviachicago, Monday, 10 October 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

Just listened to the song (thanks Spartacus!) and all I can say is that it sounds less like the Rolling Stones than like a "Rolling Stones" pastiche made for a JibJab cartoon.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

i think it is fantastic just for the lyrics, that such a mass audience band would release it. Even if it's not the best Stones song, it's also not the worst. It needed to be said. The airwaves are dominated by the Bush camp; it's nice to hear a voice calling bullshit on the radio. I'm sure they will alienate many of their US fans but it's time to retire anyway, why not release it?

― SPARTACUS TWATTERY (I AM LOGGED ON), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

they finally get political

huh?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

they were pretty nonpolitical in the 60s/70s, compared to say, the MC5, John Lennon, etc etc. I can't think of a single example of a well known political protest song from the Rilling Stones.

they were more about sex and drugs. Or is that drugs and sex? Or sex and sex?

― SPARTACUS TWATTERY (I AM LOGGED ON), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

they weren't big on protest songs, no.

but surely you can hear something political in "satisfaction"? ... or "street fighting man"? ... or "salt of the earth"? ... or blah blah blah?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 10 October 2005 05:04 (twenty years ago)

No band epitomized rock and roll excess, and in many ways the counter-culture, like the Stones. This song is just explicitly political in a way they usually aren't. It's like what would happen if a country singer associated with Middle-America and its values wrote a song called "America: 1 Liberal Media: 0" or something that bordered on partisan parody like this does. In both cases you have an act long representing a certain culture but finally articulating it to the point where they are using buzzwords and phrases usually seen in editorial columns.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 10 October 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

The airwaves are dominated by the Bush camp

Talk radio, yes (except for NPR of course), but the music charts? Unless you're talking about country music or buying into a sort of "American Idol-music-is-aural-conservatism-thus-Kelly Clarkson-is-Edmund-Burke-with-boobs-and-a-great-behind" idea I don't think you're right at all.

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 10 October 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

This Mike Jagger guy, I don't know who he thinks he is. But you don't come into God's own United States of America and disrespect it with his Eurotrash liberalism.

If you don't love America, get the hell out! God Bless America!

― Will O'Really, Monday, 10 October 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

USA USA USA USA USA USA USA

― Cunga (Cunga), Monday, 10 October 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

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